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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Law and order scene draws flak at TDP Mahanadu

Staff Reporter

Naidu asks cadre to direct energies towards Penukonda

HYDERABAD: Former minister and senior Telugu Desam Party leader Tammineni Seetaram and a former IG of Police, R. Seetarama Rao, lambasted the Congress rule in the State. There was no law and order in Andhra Pradesh, they added.

Speaking on a resolution on law and order at the Mahanadu's concluding day on Monday, Mr. Seetaram said anti-social elements and landgrabbers ruled the roost. The murder of Penukonda legislator Paritala Ravindra and 55 other party workers was State-sponsored violence against political adversaries.

`Admit failure'

"Where will you have as DGP, a man whose wife is involved in a child adoption scandal?" Mr. Seetaram asked. He wanted the Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to admit his failuresand hand over power to someone who had no factional background. On the bypoll in Penukonda, the party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, asked leaders and cadres to direct their energies in retaining the seat.

"The Congress is leaving no stone unturned and will do anything to wrest the seat from us," he warned them.

Of the IT front, Mr. Naidu recalled the steps taken in the nine years of the TDP rule. "There is nothing new now. Each activity of this Government is part of our initiative," he said.

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